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Recent Examples of defection
His defection was followed by that of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who later led the freedom fighters to victory against the French and declared Haiti’s independence.
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Marlene L. Daut
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
There would be another high-profile defection from the Tories to Reform.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
Short-term savings often lead to long-term customer defection.
—Talbott Roche, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Quizzed about a potential defection at the press conference, Payne shutdown the rumors.
—Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
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Marlene L. Daut
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
There would be another high-profile defection from the Tories to Reform.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
Short-term savings often lead to long-term customer defection.
—Talbott Roche, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Quizzed about a potential defection at the press conference, Payne shutdown the rumors.
—Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for defection
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defection
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The diehard climate activists have an orthodoxy from which even the slightest deviation is apostasy.—
Robert G. Eccles,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Whether his parents realize the extent of his apostasy isn’t clear.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Putin said Ukraine’s armed forces had a grave lack of manpower and desertions, while Russia had enough soldiers.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Mobilization has stalled, with brigades undermanned, and desertion in the ranks is a mounting problem.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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Even so, some observers see the schism as an opportunity to relitigate the relitigation.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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Unlike his isolated vote in 2006, the schism runs much deeper now.—
Frederic J. Frommer,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Oct. 2025
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Less familiar are the consequences of its abandonment of traditional civil-rights-law enforcement.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
29 Oct. 2025
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Wellsense highlights that its Fli solutions are designed for versatility, supporting a broad spectrum of well applications such as production optimization, well integrity evaluation, stimulation monitoring, and abandonment planning.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2025
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The second major structural change involves one of the hallmarks of SARS-CoV-2 as compared to SARS-CoV-1: initial scission at the S1 furin cleavage site.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes,
6 May 2022
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Wilson cautions more work is needed to explain how exactly spin results after scission.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2021
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In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Summer Walker has addressed the infidelity accusations surrounding her ex-boyfriend Lil Meech.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
23 Oct. 2025
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Left-wing ideology accounted for 65, with other motivations, like foreign nationalism, Islamism, and separatism, accounting for the rest.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
21 Sep. 2025
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Under Erdogan, Turkey has long supported different Islamist factions to further its strategic interests, especially the goal of countering Kurdish separatism on its southeastern periphery.—
Kamran Bokhari,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Read on to find out what contestants from across the country believe to be some of the greatest misconceptions about pageantry.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Many CEOs could have been overwhelmed by the daunting challenge of simultaneously mastering media misconceptions on multiple fronts.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Defection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defection. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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